Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Mark 1:26
torn him. thrown him into convulsions.
cried... voice. A Divine supplement, here.
torn him. thrown him into convulsions.
cried... voice. A Divine supplement, here.
Verse 26. _AND WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT HAD TORN HIM_] _And had_ _thrown him down in the midst_, Luke 4:35, και σπαραξαν, _and convulsed_ him. Never was there a person possessed by an unclean spirit w...
See also Luke 4:31. Mark 1:21 AND THEY WENT INTO CAPERNAUM - For the situation of Capernaum see the notes at Matthew 4:13. Straigh
PART II. THE SERVANT'S WORK; NOT TO BE MINISTERED UNTO, BUT TO MINISTER -- CHAPTER 1:14-10:52 Chapter 1:14-45. The Ministry in Galilee after John's Imprisonment. 1. The Servant in Galilee preaching...
A SPECIMEN DAY IN CAPERNAUM. With His first followers, Jesus went to Capernaum (p. 29), a border town in the kingdom of Antipas, on the high road from Ptolemais to Damascus (HNT, _ad loc.;_ Matthew 4:...
THE BEGINNING OF THE STORY (Mark 1:1-4)...
There was in the synagogue a man in the grip of an unclean spirit. Immediately he broke into a shout. "What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth?" he said. "Have you come to destroy us? I know wh...
_had torn him_ i. e. thrown him into strong convulsions, and according to St Luke's account, _into the midst_(Luke 4:35), comp. Mark 9:26. The first miracle recorded by St Matt. is the healing of a le...
ΣΠΑΡΆΞΑΝ … ΦΩΝΗ͂ΣΑΝ. Accumulation of participles; see on Mark 1:15. _Convulsing him and crying with a loud voice, came out_. “Tearing him” suggests that there was permanent injury, and Lk. tells us th...
21–28. CURE OF A DEMONIAC AT CAPERNAUM Luke 4:31-37. Omitted by Mt....
Ver 23. And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, 24. Saying, "Let us alone; what have we to do with Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazareth? art Thou come to destroy us? I...
_THE FACT OF JESUS' GALILEAN MINISTRY MARK 1:14-34:_ John prepared the way. Then Jesus began to preach "the gospel of the kingdom." (Mark 1:14) Jesus came to set up His kingdom; His one church. The ki...
ΣΠΑΡΆΞΑΝ _aor. act. part. от_ ΣΠΑΡΆΣΣΩ (G4682) рваться, тянуть в разные стороны, содрогаться в конвульсиях. Медики использовали это слово, описывая судороги желудка (Gould), ΦΩΝΉΣΑΝ _aor. act. part....
HAD TORN HIM— _Had thrown him into convulsions._ That this is a proper translation, though circuitous, appears from St. Luke, who informs us, that the spirit _did not hurt him._ It is remarkable, that...
3. A SABBATH IN THE LIFE OF JESUS 1:21-34 _TEXT 1:21-34_ And they go into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue and taught. And they were astonished at his teach...
And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. AND WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT HAD TORN HIM. Luke () says, "When he had thrown him in the midst." Malignant...
19 Before a net is used it is important that it is not badly tangled or snarled. The work of these fishermen is a graphic commentary on the word "adjust," which has been rendered by such a variety as...
BAPTISM OF JESUS. BEGINNING OF THE MINISTRY 1-8. Appearance of John the Baptist (Matthew 3:1; Luke 3:1). See on Mt and Lk. St. Mark's Gospel, being based on the reminiscences of Peter, begins with the...
A DEMONIAC HEALED IN THE SYNAGOGUE AT CAPERNAUM (Luke 4:31). A striking point in this miracle is the testimony of the demon to Christ's Messiahship, which, however, He refused to accept. If the posses...
TORN] better, 'convulsed.'...
CHRIST IN THE BIBLE: MARK’S GOSPEL _KEITH SIMONS_ This commentary HAS BEEN through Advanced Checking. ABOUT MARK’S BOOK The Bible has 4 books about Jesus’ life. They are called the Books of Mat...
HE CAME OUT OF HIM. — St. Luke adds the fact “and hurt him not.”...
CHAPTER 1:23-28 (MARK 1:23) THE DEMONIAC "And straightway there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, saying, What have we to do with Thee, Thou Jesus of Nazareth? ar...
_First appearance in the synagogue; first impressions_ (Luke 4:31-37)....
_The demoniac_....
σπαράξαν, convulsing, throwing into a spasm. This reveals a characteristic of the malady under which the man suffered. He appears to have been an epileptic. The Gadarene demoniac was a madman. This wa...
THE HELPER OF THE NEEDY Mark 1:21-39 The word _straightway_ is typical of our Lord's life. It occurs at least eleven times in this chapter (r.v.), and is the keynote of Mark's Gospel, which is pre-em...
The introductory words of this Gospel according to Mark are characterized by brevity. Mark at once announces his theme, "The beginning of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God," and then in rapid...
And when the unclean spirit (o) had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. (o) See below, (Mark 9:20)....
_Tearing him: not that the devil tore the poor man's limbs or body; for St. Luke (iv. 35.) expressly tells us, that the devil hurt him not. It means no more, than that he shook him with violent agitat...
HEALING OF PETER'S MOTHER-IN-LAW Matthew 8:14-17; Mark 1:2-34; & Luke 14:3-35 Mark: “And immediately coming out of the synagogue? came into the house of Simon and Andrew and James and John. The mother...
(23) And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out, (24) Saying, Let _us_ alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I...
It is remarkable how tradition has contrived to injure the truth in touching the question of the method of the gospel we now enter on; for the current view which comes down to us from the ancients, st...
Mark 1:26_When the unclean spirit had torn him _Luke uses a milder phrase, _when the devil had thrown him down: _but they agree perfectly as to the meaning; for the design of both was to show, that th...
The message is new at least in the absolute and complete character it assumes, and in its direct and immediate application. It was not the Jewish privileges which should be obtained by repenting and r...
AND WHEN THE UNCLEAN SPIRIT HAD TORN HIM,.... Not that he had torn any limb from him, or had made any wound in any part of his body; for Luke says, Luke 4:35, that he "hurt him not", but he shook him;...
And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him. Ver. 26. _And when the unclean spirit had torn him_] So he will serve all that he is now at one with, as Bra...
_And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit_ Luke, _which had a spirit of an unclean devil. And he cried out_ Luke, _with a loud voice._ As soon as the devil saw Jesus, dreading his...
TORN HIM; convulsed him. Luke adds that he "hurt him not," Mark 4:35....
And when the unclean spirit had torn him, and cried with a loud voice, he came out of him....
The man with the unclean spirit:...
This beginning is not that ofJohn 1:1, which speaks of the Lord's eternal existence "with God," and as being God; nor is it that of creation (Genesis 1:1), but of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son o...
TITLE: Preaching, Calling, and Helping TEXT: Mark 1:14-34 PROPOSITION: Jesus shows us how to evangelize. QUESTION: How? KEY WORD: Methods SCRIPTURE READING: INTRODUCTION: 1. How would you being a new...
23-28 The devil is an unclean spirit, because he has lost all the purity of his nature, because he acts in direct opposition to the Holy Spirit of God, and by his suggestions defiles the spirits of m...
SEE POOLE ON "MARK 1:25...
Mark 1:26 And G2532 unclean G169 spirit G4151 convulsed G4682 (G5660) him G846 and G2532 out G2896 ...
SECTION 1. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF HIS MINISTRY (1:1-3:35). This section commences with Jesus' emergence from the wilderness as the Spirit anointed King and Servant (Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 61:1...
SECTION 1. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF HIS MINISTRY (1:1-3:35). This section commences with Jesus' emergence from the wilderness as the Spirit anointed King and Servant (Isaiah 11:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 61:1...
THE FIRST STAGE IN THE MINISTRY OF JESUS. (1:14-39). Now that He had been especially empowered and had determined the path that He would tread Jesus leaves the wilderness behind and goes out among men...
JESUS REVEALS HIS AUTHORITY IN HIS TEACHING AND BY CASTING OUT AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT (1:21-28). Having revealed His authority by calling men to abandon everything and follow Him, He now reveals that auth...
THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS IS REVEALED BY HIS POWER OVER EVIL SPIRITS (1:23-28). The authority of Jesus was now further revealed in that He was now faced with a man possessed by an evil spirit which was s...
‘And Jesus rebuked him saying, “Be quiet and come out of him.” And the unclean spirit, tearing him and crying with a loud voice, came out of him.' Jesus rejected the testimony of the evil spirit. He d...
Mark 1:26. HAD TORN HIM _._ A paroxysm attended the dispossession (comp. chap. Mark 9:26; Luke 9:42); not a natural convulsion, but the malicious act of the demon. _Cried with a loud voice._ The act o...
CHRONOLOGY. This Gospel presents the fewest deviations from the chronological order. In the whole narrative of the ministry in Galilee, we find but one such: in the case of the feast at Levi's house;...
TEARING HIM (σπαραξαν αυτον). Margin,CONVULSING HIM like a spasm. Medical writers use the word for the rotating of the stomach. Luke 4:35 adds "when the demon had thrown him down in the midst." M...
Mark 1 The Cure of Simon's Wife's Mother. Pain, sickness, delirium, madness, as great infringements of the laws of nature as the miracles themselves, are such veritable presences to the human experie...
Mark 1:16 I. Vers. 16-20. (1) Christ is the Preparer of His servants. "I will make you" how much was involved in that promise. (_a_) Authority; (_b_) Qualification. (2) Small beginnings compatible wit...
Mark 1:14. _Now after that John was put in prison, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God,_ When one servant of God is laid aside, it is a call to the rest to be the more...
CONTENTS: Ministry of John the Baptist. Baptism and temptation of Jesus and His first Galilean ministry. Demons cast out, sickness healed, leprosy cured. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, John the...
Mark 1:1. _The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God._ This commencement is laconic, beautiful, and perspicuous. Several Greek authors begin their books in this independent way. It a...
AND came OUT of HIM. At Christ's command. This was not "make believe," but showed Jesus' authority....
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 1:26 THEY WERE ALL AMAZED. Casting out this demon confirms Jesus’ authority to teach. See note on Matt. 12:27....
MARK—NOTE ON MARK 1:16 Demonstration of Jesus’ Authority. The first half of Mark’s Gospel shows that Jesus has authority over sickness, over the laws of nature, and over the demonic world. It also hig...
JESUS TEACHES WITH GREAT AUTHORITY MARK 1:21-28; LUKE 4:31-37; MARK 1:21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught....
COMMENTARY upon THE GOSPEL OF S. MARK. _______. _______ INTRODUCTION. " MARK," says S. Jerome in his _Catalogue of Ecclesiastical Writers_, "was a disciple and interpreter of S. Peter. At the req...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Mark 1:21. _Capernaum_ was at that time a flourishing commercial town on north-western shore of lake. A customs station, with military quarters. Its synagogue was the g...
EXPOSITION MARK 1:1 THE BEGINNING OF THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST. These words mean, not the title of the book, but the commencement of the narrative; and so they depend upon what follows, namely, "as...
Let's turn to Mark's gospel. Mark was a young man when Jesus was crucified, perhaps about twelve years old. So, the gospel that he writes is considered to be the understanding that he received from li...
Luke 11:22; Luke 9:39; Luke 9:42; Mark 9:20; Mark 9:26...
Tearing him [σ π α ρ α ξ α ν α υ τ ο ν]. Margin, convulsing him like a spasm. Medical writers use the word for the rotating of the stomach. Luke 4:35 adds "when the demon had thrown him down in the mi...
A loud noise — For he was forbidden to speak. Christ would neither suffer those evil spirits to speak in opposition, nor yet in favour of him. He needed not their testimony, nor would encourage it, le...